[MD] Consciousness a la Platt

[Ron Kulp]

[Chris] before
> > I don't know If you'll agree with me, but from where I'm sitting it
> > seems plausible that consciousness the way it is identified (witch
is
> > rather badly) now had to develop from the social level and into the
> > intellectual level.
Bo:
OK, animals don't have language, neither aloud nor silent as 
thoughts,  but even after language (at the social level) there was 
no inner/outer distinction.

Ron:
How would you know this?

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
 have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) 
no human being has been reported to have learned Dolphinese.
- Carl Sagan

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all
who are laughed
 at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they
laughed at the 
Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan